Hello and welcome to my worklog. For this project i'll be migrating some of the parts from my previous build to this. the goal is quite similar to my last worklog, acrylic tube water cooling, this time in a Corsair 750D. Please don't expect much, i'm not a modder like all the pro sifus here , just trying to make a decent looking water cooling rig.

- The name for this project, which is Dracarys, does it need any explanation? haha, those who watch GOT will understand
- Theme of this build will be black and red for the most part.

Parts list:

cpu - Intel Core I5 3570K
mobo - MSI z77 GD65 Gaming
Ram - 4GBx2 G.Skill RipjawsX 2133MHz
psu - Coolermaster Silent Pro m700
gpu - Sapphire HD6970 + XFX HD6950 Unlocked
ssd - Samsung 840 Evo 250GB
hdd - Seagate 1TB SSHD 7200rpm 64mb
case - Corsair 750D

Cooling:

1) XSPC Raystorm
2) EKWB 6970 Acetal Waterblock x2
3) XSPC EX360 + XSPC RX240 (cooled by 7 Coolermaster Jetflo fans red led)
4) XSPC Dual bay res + Swiftech MCP355
5) Bitspower C47 + Custom acrylic tubes
6) Mayhems Pastel Red for coolant

- Not much of an upgrade from my last build, just added a 6970 for cfx with my 6950. Not looking to upgrade to AMD 7xxx series or R9, not even Nvidia 7xx series in the near future, not much of a gamer these days, only bought the extra card for looks . Also changed ram, ssd, hdd and case, sold off the rest.
- While waiting for my items to arrive from bro Lucasss's ppcs bulk , already started on the rig. Here's a lil preview:

#UPDATE 13/3/2014

Repainting the ram heat spreaders from blue to red. bought this ram really cheap from a forumer

- Ram before repainting:


- warranty voided


- all cleaned up and ready to paint


- after painted. now im not so sure i made the right choice huhu. the red is too dark


- what it looks like in the rig




This post has been edited by najmul: Mar 13 2014, 05:41 PM

reserved for final pics

This post has been edited by najmul: Mar 13 2014, 07:23 PM

SUUUUUUUBBING.

haha, thx mate wish me good luck

I'm sure you'll make a nice looking build.

And Dem JetFlos look mighty fine mate. Hahaha.

I hope so

Yes, and the price also burn my wallet haha

Someone offered me RM38 per fan. LOLZ.
But yeah I agree it's expensive. Even the Aerocool ones with similair specs is RM30 per fan already.

some updates above, painted my ram heat spreaders. not sure i made the right decision, but at least its not blue anymore

Nice job. But yeah if it's a little more brighter shade of red it'll be perfect. But otherwise great work. I'm sure you'll add LEDs later on so it'll be fine anyways.

yeah should have gone with a brighter red. i might add some sleeved white led's in the future, or i might just take off the heat spreader and repaint the damn thing haha

hehe bro waiting for ur latest update. ^^

is that my ex 6970 in ur machine?

soon bro, very very soon hehe.

hopefully by this week i can finish all the tubing

hehe, yes bro but im using my old xfx stock cooler. coz your's not working properly

hehe do let me know ^^ maybe will ask for ur guidance next time on arcylic fittings ^^

Wah. Acrylic tubing ah? Can help me bend some ah bro?

can bro, no problem nowadays go so many choices, before it was just bitspower. now ek & primochill also have fittings for acrylic tubes

yeah bro, but not so different than my last project. just straight tubing

cannot help la bro, i fail that part haha. last time i try bend i melted the damn tube haven't tried again since lol

#update 22/3/14
- already finished working on the tubes. will upload them later. for now, just some minor updates

some stuff i got from bro Lucassss ppcs bulk. cant thank you enough bro


XSPC EX360 paired with Coolermaster Jetflo fans


6970 + 6950 unlocked. i realized its nothing new, thought of getting R9 290 or GTX780, but then i would be bankrupt

Sweeeeeeeeeet.

By the way boss what fittings/tubing you use to connect the GPUs. Wanna follow the same.

Looks great so far!!!

haha thanks bro . i use bitspower C47 multi-link fittings, you can buy them along with the crystal link tubes, they come with different sizes depending on which slots you use for crossfire/sli.

but mine i cut the tubes myself, and filed the edges.

You can thank me with cash, cheque or bank-drafts.

wow, you've started setting up your pc? i haven't started yet, still not enough parts to start mine. well, i'm using a soft tube with red coolant and i'm planning to change it to all acrylic tube with green uv coolant.

PM me links la boss. I'm waiting.

and najmul, are you using dslr for the pictures? looks damn good

BTW on hell of a setup there bro nama pon dracarys nanti dragon will come out , will follow your thread very interesting la ur setup maybe i can adapt some of your ideas in my new rig

start fast la bro, want to see your rig also if you're planning on going for acrylic tubing, better u buy newer fittings, mine are old bitspower c47. nowadays got all sorts of fittings and rigid tubes for acrylics.

yeah bro, im using my brother's canon 600d

itu gara2 game of thrones la bro haha thanks bro, tp setup cam gini x power mana pun. rig dak2 wc club semua gempak2

#update 23/3/14

- tubing all done. today had a bit of a scare, pump failed halfway through leak testing. took out the pump to see whats the problem, thought it died on me, turns out a paper clip got stuck inside the pump wtf hahaha how the hell it ended up in there i have no idea.
- all is good now, currently leak testing the rig, for the 2nd time. letting the pump run for a few hours to let the bubbles out before turning on the rig. will update the pics later.




This post has been edited by najmul: Mar 23 2014, 08:33 AM

Yes, but still there's a few items I need to buy to complete my loop.

More pic please!~ hehe

Sheeeeeeeeeet. add coolant and this thing will look sexy as hell. Grrrrrrrr. So jelly.

so for now you going for normal tube is it? i thought u got all already from bulk? u bought more bitspower c47 than me haha

uploading the pics now bro

hehe, wait ah, coolant added already, uploading pics now

#update 23/3/14

- rig passed leak test, thank god the most nerve-wracking part of building a wc rig lol.
- wc loop now finished, but build not finished yet. still got a few custom cables left to do
- still thinking whether or not to make a custom acrylic psu cover.

mayhems pastel red concentrate. might add some dye to make it a bit darker, kinda looks a bit pinkish


going through leak test



please ignore the hideous gpu cables below. still waiting for my custom cables and sleeving from niclasteoh.

Hahahaha in the bottle it looks like watermelon juice.

But DAAAAAMMNNN SON! Dat final product.

Great job braw!

looks like sirap bandung soda to me hahaha

thanks man i didn't initially plan for the loop to be like this in the first place, but due to fittings restriction, this is all i could do.

btw, when u free ah? want to give your blademasters

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. Now that yu mentioned it yes. But I think I'll stick to red tubing. I like primochills blood red color. Then use normal distilled water can edi.

Eh? Restriction? Looks like alot of space to me. Where was the loop supposed to be originally placed?

Lol free everyday boss. Study break. Now also can. Looooool.

najmul damnn that final pic giller nice xD btw wanna ask is it the camera angle or the top straight tube look a bit senget? Your CPU WB nvr use the red led? X)

All waiting u lol

no bro you are right, the top tube is a bit off. due to fittings restrictions, that was the only way i could do it, i didnt wanna buy any more fittings, so i just dealt with what i had

was going to do something like this for the cpu block, but i used up all my fittings.

LOL! One 90° adaptor plus two more compressions and you would have done it already. Damn. So close.

yeah, but i wasn't willing to spend another dime on this rig anymore

plus, i couldn't wait any longer to finish this rig

Wow... is that a car?

By the way Najmul, congratulation on your new loop. Looks damn kewl!~

Aiya, makan maggi for the next month can edi lah. Hahaha.

But yeah it turned our pretty nice anyways. Congrats!

+1 to that. Still it looks very nice tho. Haha How I wish I can make my next upgrade like this x)

thats what i did la, x larat la nak makan maggi dah haha.

thanks bro, turned out okay i guess. now i'm waiting for your rig bro, fast la, i want to see

thanks man, even though i didn't plan for it to look like this, it turned out ok in the end.

not really that hard la bro to make loop like mine, anyone can do for sure. bending acrylic is the tricky one, i haven't tried again since i melted the acrylic last time

haha, that mod was actually mod of the year 2013 on bit-tech.net , was going to do something a bit similar to this, but in the end came out a bit different

Aiya, one two more weeks of maggI won't hurt since you've been doing it for so long. Hahahahah.

How lah bro. Even Aquatuning hasn't shipped yet. I've ordered it the same time as PPC. sigh. Plus by the time it comes also exams already.

This post has been edited by Sentinel92: Mar 24 2014, 12:05 AM

I like how u mount the hard drive and ssd. xD look so cool that way. ^^ btw no planning for acrylic cover for bottom ka? ^^

yeah, i took out the hard drive cages and just used the 2.5" mounts. no longer using 3.5" drives

still planning bro, want to design something simple for a psu cover, but i have no experience with acrylic sheets

I don't supposed u need heat gun to bend it too right? u have those tools ? Dremel, Heatgun and etc?

Summoning shepard.

ofcos need heatgun, hairdryer surely not hot enough. i had it before, sold off the heatgun. dremel i dont have lor

haha damnn~~ maybe few months later ba. I'll be back with acrylic need makan roti few months to save up first. ^^

yeah, was thinking of contacting him. i'm too lazy to do it myself, coz i know it won't turn out so well. i already have a design in my mind right now, will sketch it out later

#update 27/3/14

- just a small update, my cables arrived from niclasteoh today , started working on them immediately.
- already worked on a few prototypes for a psu cover using some leftover cardboards, will upload them later. end product will be acrylic ofcourse

very smart of him to leave the pcie connectors unconnected from the cables, coz he knows im gonna sleeve them


i still haven't mastered sleeving yet, far from satisfied but it'll do for now


the worst and most annoying part of any build, cable management , this is the best that i could do.


some internal pics

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeet me jellyyyyy. I want to start my red/black build so baaaaaad.

Epic job mate.

haha thx mate, appreciate it . but i might change the tube routing in the future, not happy with how the 2 longest tubes in the rig looks.

Now that's some high quality picture and superb 600D right there bro
can I know what type of lens u use?

and your build really makes me envy. Nice color matching

to be honest bro, i have absolutely no idea, all i know is to point and shoot haha . i'll have to ask my brother, he's the photographer in the family

thanks a lot bro, appreciate it

#update 30/3/14

- not really an update, just started working on the psu cover design. the picture below will most likely be the final design i will use.
- still not sure whether to laser cut the "dragon", and place red acrylic behind it, or just print a sticker and just place it on the psu cover.
- would be cool though if i decided to laser cut the dragon, and maybe place some led's to make the red acrylic glow

Okay, I'm definitely coming to you to help with my PSU cover design. HAHAHAH. Looks epic if executed nicely.

lol, i just use photoshop bro, really newbie skills haha. most likely i'll ask shepard to help with me on the design etc

#update 4/4/13

- another small update. got my psu cover from shepard today , but i miscalculated my measurements a bit, so need to modify the cover a bit.
- after i make some adjustments to the psu cover, i'll be wrapping it up with carbon fiber, hopefully it'll turn out okay
- not much left to do for this build, just the psu cover and some additional lighting, thinking of getting the nzxt sleeved led white

the picture shepard took before he sent it out to me, just a teaser for now


This post has been edited by najmul: Apr 4 2014, 04:31 PM

#update 4/9/14

- finished wrapping the psu cover with carbon fiber sticker, not really pleased with how it looks but it'll do for now
- bought some led strips from mod_po, 1 problem i had when it arrived, the soldering job wasn't quite so good. when it tried to sleeve the molex wires, without applying any pressure whatsoever, the wires fell off from the soldering point. so i went to ace hardware, got a soldering tool and re-did it myself
- i was worried that the led's might be too bright, and i was right. it makes my jetflo fans look so dull , only way i think to solve this problem is to sleeve the led strip, which i will do later.
- forgive me for the pictures below, my side window is scratched, somemore inside of the case filled with my cat's fur

really cheap led strip 5m for RM40 only, still got a lot of left overs. anybody want? huhu


re-soldered the wires


some night shots with the led's lit up










This post has been edited by najmul: Apr 9 2014, 04:28 AM

GAWD DAMNIT THAT PSU COVER.

Your LEDs have a weird effect on your tubing thought. I genuinely thought you polka dotted your tubing at first glance.

hahaha lol, the leds are too damn bright . i might get some sata sized black sleeving and just sleeve over the strip to get some what of a effect like those nzxt sleeved leds

good idea! But damn... nice build u have there man! The polka dot effect kinda nice too imho haha

Wow, your build is awesome man. If only I have the skills needed for acrylic tubing.

nice build

thanks bro , still waiting for your worklog updates

no need skill la, only need to measure, cut, and file the edges. unlike bending, that needs skill, unfortunately i dont have it lol

thanks bro

Mine will take some time. Don't have the funds needed to go fast. LOL.

Amazing build takes times and patience. Same as najmul waiting for ur build too~ ^^ Maybe u kena toto leh who knows. ^^
Btw najmul, the LED is white colour is it? Might want some~ Hehe.

I don't even buy toto, how to kena?

Haha maybe you found one on the road. Who knows? ^^

i thought u got all your stuff from bulk? Sentinel92 told me u guys still waiting for your stuff from aquatuning right?

yes bro, it is white color pm me if u want hehe. but they are just bare leds, no connected wires. i can solder it for u but i dont have the wires and headers

Yeah, WC parts are pretty much done. I haven't even bought computer parts other than the case. LOL.

wow najmul. good job on your build. looks damn cool. this is what i've been wanted to do all this time. you gave me some ideas from your build. can't wait to start mine anytime soon. waiting for my package from frozencpu. just purchase everything of the remaining parts today.

thanks bro, really appreciate it. but this build not quite done just yet, not quite happy with how it looks, might change to a d5/tube res combo and get rid of the bay res

cant wait to see your's bro im sure its gonna be awesome. open up a worklog if can, i surely will follow

i saw someone is selling his bitspower 250 res for rm60 only.

haha i also can't wait to build it. but my parts is still not completed yet. need to wait the shipment for maybe 3 weeks. or i should just do the worklog while waiting for the item?

#update 19/5/14

just a small update on where this build is headed, nothing interesting. i still consider it unfinished coz i dont quite like how it looks. got myself a pump top + res combo from niclasteoh, gonna change my tube route a bit, hopefully its finished by this week.

also in the not so distant future hopefully, i'll be swapping the mobo and cpu with a z97 board and haswell cpu, most probably going to be the maximus 7 hero and 4670k/4770k



This post has been edited by najmul: May 19 2014, 09:26 PM

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. ME JELLY.

haha, get la bro, replace that swiftech res you've been trying to sell for ages now haha

I wish I could but wallet running dry. I want the aquacomputer DDC Top/Res so bad.

oh, you mean the aqualis? nice btw, how's your build going? got your gpu block yet?

Yes the Aqualis. And nooooothing is going on maaaaaan. Aquatuning just only sent an email. Still no stock. ***** sial.